Looking for the Carol Reed Facebook page, I came across a page for the British director of the same name who made, among many others, Our Man in Havana and The Third Man. Is our Carol a namesake, I wonder. Does anyone know?

I wondered the same thing when I saw the name in the credits of "The Third Man". My guess is 'yes'. Mikael checks in here every so often. Maybe we'll hear about it then.

I’m surprised that this isn’t brought up more often. I’ve only seen it mentioned a few times.

When Eleen and I discussed the name for our protagonist when planning Remedy, the first game, we had decided on the surname Reed. Eleen suggested Carol as the first name. I remember saying that we couldn’t use that, since there was a (male) film director with the very same name. But somehow we ended up with that name anyway.